DOE Joint Genome Institute

DOE JGI in Walnut Creek, California, provides state-of-the-science capabilities for genome sequencing and analysis. With more than 1100 worldwide collaborators on active projects, JGI is the preeminent facility for sequencing plants, microbes, and microbial communities that are foundational to energy and environmental research.

Genetics, Ethics, and Human Values

The Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) held its 24th Round Table Conference in Tokyo and in Inuyama City, Japan, on "Genetics, Ethics and Human Values: Human Genome Mapping, Genetic Screening, and Therapy." The July 22-27 conference was held under the auspices of the Science Council of Japan and cosponsored by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.

Fifth in the "Health Policy, Ethics, and Human Values: An International Dialogue" series, the meeting was cochaired by Eiji Inouye (Science Council of Japan, Tokyo) and by Alexander Morgan Capron (The Law Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles).

CIOMS conferences provide international and interdisciplinary forums for the scientific and lay communities to exchange views on topics of immediate concern. Previous dialogues in the series, begun in 1984, have examined organ transplantation, genetic screening and counseling, health care of the elderly, lifestyles, and family planning.

Participants, who numbered 102, came from 24 countries. In addition to biomedical science and medicine, they represented a wide range of disciplines-sociology, psychology, epidemiology, law, social policy, philosophy, and theology-and brought with them experience in hospital and public health medicine, academia, private industry, and the executive and legislative branches of government.

Attendees explored a number of issues through presentations and discussions in plenary sessions and working groups. At the final session, they adopted the declaration, the CIOMS Inuyama Statement, prepared by Capron, as submitted by CIOMS.

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Human Genome Program, U.S. Department of Energy, Human Genome News (v2n4).

Human Genome Project 1990–2003

The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international 13-year effort, 1990 to 2003. Primary goals were to discover the complete set of human genes and make them accessible for further biological study, and determine the complete sequence of DNA bases in the human genome. See Timeline for more HGP history.

Published from 1989 until 2002, this newsletter facilitated HGP communication, helped prevent duplication of research effort, and informed persons interested in genome research.

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